George Curzon

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Kedleston (11 January 1859-20 March 1925) was Viceroy and Governor-General of British India from 6 January 1899 to 18 November 1905, succeeding Victor Bruce and preceding Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 23 October 1919 to 22 January 1924, succeeding Arthur Balfour and preceding Ramsay MacDonald.

Biography
George Curzon was born in Kedleston, Derbyshire, England on 11 January 1859, and he was educated at Eton and Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1886 and became Viceroy of British India in 1898. For seven years, he presided over education and agriculture reforms, as well the extension of the country's railways and cannals. However, his partition of Bengal in 1905 was controversial, and he resigned after clashing with the commander-in-chief in India, Horatio Kitchener, over control of the British Indian Army. In 1915, he became a member of H.H. Asquith's coalition as Lord Privy Seal; in 1916 ,he became Lord President of the Council, holding the position under David Lloyd George's War Cabinet as well. As Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924, his influence was limited due to the interference of Lloyd George, but his name was given to the Curzon Line, the proposed boundary between Poland and Russia in 1920. He hoped to becoome Prime Minister in 1923, but was passed over in favor of Stanley Baldwin. He continued as Foreign Secretary in Baldwin's first government, but he lost the office to Austen Chamberlain in Baldwin's second government in November 1924. He then served as Lord President of the Council until his death in 1925.